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> that I want to point to your attention to: when you compile a program
> NQCEdit automatically saves your source file. This is not stated anywhere
Actually, this is a GOOD thing. I've never seen a compiler that
doesn't save the source first. Compilers can occasionally do wierd and
not-so-wonderful things which may include full or partial system
crashes. Given this possibility, you WANT it to save your source file
first. It's better than having the system crash after a long debug
session only to find that your corrections are gone with the wind.
> Suppose I want to test if a particular statement compiles well: I open one
> of my old NQC programs, insert somewhere a new statement, click "compile",
> look what happens then close NQCEdit. That made a permanent modification to
> my old source file!
My trick here is "ERASEME". This is catch-all filename that I use for
exactly the purpose you propose above. I never experiment with good
code. If I have to try something I'm not sure about, I copy the
original to ERASEME (eraseme.prg, eraseme.txt, eraseme.src, whatever
applies) and do my experimenting there. By using this convention, I
can occasionally and safely erase every occurrence of ERASEME.* on my
drives. Similarly I know the all the ERASEME files are junk and
shouldn't be used in final programs.
Matthias Jetleb
VA3-MWJ
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| "Matthias Jetleb" <jetleb@netcom.ca> write: (...) Hi Matthias, yes I agree this is a good thing, if you want and know that it happens. Actually most IDEs allow you to enable/disable the save-before-compile option (that's usually disabled by (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) Hi Martin, I was pointed to Mikael's program by an Italian friend, Carlo Ottolina, who told the lugnet.loc.it community NQCEdit is very good: (URL) tried your brother's program and, from what I've seen up to now, it's almost perfect. There's (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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